Sadly, that’s my problem with time travel stories as well. I’m willing to suspend my disbelief because I like lots of other aspects of the show, and frankly, the other parts of this story arc are pretty good. But it will end up being some sort of an “imaginary story” once they resolve the time loop.
I did like that they keep using the May/motherhood theme in the story lines. It’s clearly a defining part of her character. I saw Mack with his shotgun axe, but where did it come from? I blinked for a second and must have missed it.
Since the Scooby Gang made it to the post apocalypse world, are any of them still alive? Will one of them sacrifice themselves to allow our timeline folks go back and break the loop? Even better would be if they swap positions, our version sacrifices themselves, and we get a version of one character who lived through the end of the world. That would shake things up a bit and make it less of a holodeck adventure.
I like that Voss isn’t a pure bad guy. He thinks he’s doing right even if his methods are pretty rough. I assume he killed Deke’s dad, but maybe there’s a surprise waiting there as well.
I assume the video of Daisy that Voss showed has some clues for what happens. What was on Daisy’s forearms? Are those some sort of power enhancers that could rip apart the earth?
Fitz left a cache of weapons in the Lighthouse, including the shotgun axe. Unfortunately they were on the level with the roaches. That’s how Mack & Yoyo found out that the Kree were driving the Roaches onto the inhabited levels.
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Those are the devices that Jemma made for her that prevent damage to her arms when overusing her Quake powers. She’s had them for a few seasons.
That whole scene was stupid as hell though - “There’s proof that Quake destroyed the world! It’s on video!” Yes, a video of Daisy walking off a quinjet, like she’s done several hundred times. I’m convinced.
So we should assume all the scenes in the relative past (but our future, ie. the stuff from the early 2020s) happened after they return to the present with the knowledge we have watched them acquire in the far future, right?
Fitz hid them on level 3 in the past…the level that was infested with bloodsuckers. Yoyo didn’t quite appreciate that Fitz would not have known that, and Fitz got to lay a rare verbal smackdown upon her.
The “scenes from next week” seemed to show Kasius in natural light, in the past? Wouldn’t it be fun if he has scar on his cheek then? That he just goes round and round? Silly, I know.
The reveal of the identity of Casius’ “seer” might be the most satisfying mystery reveal of the entire run of the show. I mean, Ward’s reveal in season 1 was certainly far more consequential so I guess the far reaching consequence gives it extra credit, but just in terms of a “Holy Shit!” factor bringing on shock and all kinds of disturbing questions, this was a damn good reveal.
I’m trying to remember…
Did Casius have any interaction with our-timline-YoYo? If he did, he certainly should have recognized her as his seer, so I assume not. Still, it’s weird for me to think that we’ve gotten so far into the season with Casius and YoYo never having seen one another.
I mean he didn’t know PastYoyo was one of the SHIELD agents brought from the past until he saw her with Mack. Until that point he only knew about Melinda, Daisy, and Simmons. Presumably, he would have woken up FutureYoyo earlier if he had known PastYoyo was there.
I had a feeling this segment would serve as a half-season arc. Presumably they’ll be able to close the loop, but I wonder how they’d plausibly figure something out that previous, identical versions of themselves could not.
And I was starting to really like Casius … his segment-ending shift from a sniveling but prideful coward who struggled with his place in a warrior society to full on crazy person was a little abrupt.
Interesting that the new timeline will apparently continue uninterrupted, without any Back to the Future style reality shifting to be seen. Doesn’t that make Deke’s sacrifice in sending them back rather quixotic? It’s not his earth that’ll be saved, and after all, he hardly knew the shield folks.
Maybe they’ll do the time-travel/alternate universe trick where as long as there’s a possibility the broken-earth timeline exists, it does. Once the team makes the correct choices and the earth isn’t destroyed, and cannot possibly be destroyed, that timeline will fold back into the intact-earth timeline.
I generally dislike time travel story lines because they end up with important scenes and character development that “never happened” or sacrifices that end up meaning nothing. In this case, the story line is compelling enough that I’m willing to ignore my concerns and enjoy the ride. Hopefully it will all be worth it in the end.
It’s unclear to me how Kasius’ Berserker Juice™ works on humans and Kree exactly the same way. The Kree doctor confirms that the two have very different physiology when he couldn’t raise Sinara from the dead. But using human weapons to kill the doctor is kind of ridiculous. Why wouldn’t he use a Kree weapon?
I did like Kasius’ descent into madness, but I’m surprised his guards didn’t abandon ship earlier. I agree that it happened too quickly, triggered by Sinara’s death. We never really got to see the relationship between those two, so its impact on him wasn’t really felt by the audience.
Fitz has turned much darker. His booby traps that cut off the Kree heads in order to scare any Kree that were following clearly shook Simmons. He’s a decisive bad ass now. I wonder if they’ll ever remember he had brain damage back in season 1?
Seer-Yo-Yo was creepy, but effective. I think she’s grown a bit as an actress, and the relationship between Yo-Yo and Mack has grown on me as well.
Question: When did those VTOL planes ever exhibit the ability to fly in outer space before? I thought they were just advanced planes with cloaking abilities and cool weaponry and escape vehicles, not spaceships.
Finally caught up. This season is chugging along perfectly fine and it is one of the better ones. No one here has mentioned Coulson dying? And him apparently knowing about it? I’m assuming this is going to be a major part of the season when it comes back in March, but it’s interesting that we’re going to have ANOTHER “something is wrong with Coulson” arc. I wonder if the ultimate resolution will be whatever deal he made with Ghost Rider?
Seeing Zombie Yo-Yo was definitely off-putting, but why didn’t she just yell “It’s not the real me! I’m a clone! Look at my arms for proof!” when Mack was freaking out about her? Surely he’s seen enough shit to think “You know, that’s plausible”.
Lastly, it still bugs me about the Kree’s power. They’re introduced as super humans that only supers can take down, but now Daisy can take on multiple ones, May can just kill em willy-nilly and Mack lasts forever with a roided-up one. It’s not a HUGE deal, but still annoying.
Oh wait, speaking of May, doesn’t she have some power from a Kree stick or something? I seem to remember a season or two ago she absorbed some kind of super-angry-strength from a Kree weapon of some sort. Anyone know what I’m talking about?